The Witch of Halloween House

This is a YA book, which for some reason I completely missed.We know from the book blurb that an old woman was wrongly thought to have kidnapped a young boy. The townspeople therefore burned down her house. With her in it. Before she dies, she curses the town. Then watch what happens.Fast forward three years. The chief of police has a son the same age as the currently missing boy. Yep, three years later, a young boy disappeared on the same day as the first one. The clue left behind is a shoe and a gingerbread cookie. A little girl gets a cookie also, but as I write (I do this to remind myself of what's happened so far before I fall asleep.), nothing has happened to her yet.Full fledged Halloween story at its best. I love the costume one of characters chooses; definitely no one else would choose it.I can truly see this as a Halloween special. Truly. I am a very visual reader. In the right hands, this would be one I would watch every year, even though I am 60.Fun and scary and a good clean read for everyone.This could even be a bedtime book for parental reading, age 6 up.I loved it. Not for a lot of my friends, but others will love it as I do.

Now this was a Halloween Classic of the BEST kind! Trust me! There is no gore or sex, just a GREAT Halloween theme and timed story of an old scary lady accused of being a Witch and her getting revenge on the small town that burned her alive in her little house!!! Great storytelling! Perfect for all ages......Remember when you read 'Harry Potter' for the very first time? Well, get ready for a fast paced, intense, fun and suspenseful and scary Halloween ride!Look here soon for my video review from my YouTube Channel 'AreYouIntoHorror' :After almost losing my faith with New Horror Fiction and authors of such books.....this little gem comes out of nowhere and blew me away!!!3 years ago: A mother and her young son are at the grocery store, the mother runs in to get some butter and other must needs, when she comes back out, her son is missing! Upon panic and a misunderstanding the police chief and his officer investigate 'the scary old lady that lives on the hill that everyone thinks is a witch!'. With one thing leading to another she is burned alive in her house and places a Violent and Scary curse upon the small town, vowing with her getting revenge!3 years later......19 year old college student and her younger brother Tommy are getting ready for Halloween, and with their father being the chief of police, (and after losing their mother tragically) they remember what happened 3 years ago.....and this year, another child comes up missing in a weird circumstance......the only thing different, a Gingerbread cookie and bloody shoe is found in the childs bedroom the last place the child was seen, and it starts all over. Is the witch getting her revenge? Is Tommy and his friends all doomed to be the 'Next on the witches list of Kids to kill and eat?' With Tommy just wanting nothing more that to still be able to go trick or treating, Carmen and her father know that there is definitely something going on that is not to be taken lightly. As another child and more start to come up missing, there are creepy symbols burned into trees, the cement in the town square that have to do with ancient rituals. By this time, I was HOOKED and could not turn the pages fast enough!Author Jeff Degordick is one talented author who is able to take a simple, but so Intensely suspenseful story and hook you from the first page....and he never lets up! This story was so much fun, I cannot express that this is just pure Halloween season Fun! It is so perfectly written that it is not childish at all, the scenes of 'the witch' chasing, and catching kids is trul frightening in a way that is makes you think of that first time you were scared out of your wits as a kid, thinking you were feeling that you were being chased by 'that killer or witch on halloween night' and the author masters his technique of the imagery of these scenes! After reading this (i purchased both the first and its sequel at the same time) I immediately picked up the next book; 'The Witches of Halloween Haven". I KNOW you want to know what it coming up next!?Pick this book up....it's is Halloween season PERFECT!!!

This was a fun, quick read. It is a cautionary tale about what can happen when we make assumptions about people who are different and let our imaginations run wild. It started out with a little boy going missing. The whole town blamed the strange old Lady who lived in a house in the woods. Even after her home was searched and there was no sign of the child, the town' s people would not give up and burned her house to the ground. As she died, she cursed the town. Three years later, children began to disappear. Carmen and Tommy, the police chief's children, must solve the mystery of the Witch of Halloween House before it's too late.

Carmen, her brother Tommy and police father Robert are moving on after the death of their mother and wife. Two years previously a boy disappears and the town folk all blame the old woman who lives in a house in the woods. They take action and the house gets set on fire and the old woman dies. Her dying breath is a curse on the town. Now the witch is back and children are disappearing.This was a decent YA book. I had to keep reading to see how it would turn out.

Okay, so it held my interest. I finished it in less than two days. The plot was good. The dialog, for the most part, was okay. Sometimes a little corny, sometimes a little stilted. There were some grammatical errors, but not enough to put me off. It read like a hyped Hardy Boys novel, but that's not necessarily a bad thing either. It's just that there were some execution blunders. Such as where the children are tied to pillars, so how did they shield themselves from the "raining dust"? And if they could shield themselves, why didn't they just untie themselves? Little things, you know?

I was expecting one of the normal cozy little witch stories so prevalent lately, but got so much more than that. Tight plotting; awesome characters; gripping story about a real old-fashioned witch. I couldn't put it down! When my Kindle died, I grabbed my iPad. When the iPad needed a charge, I went to the Samsung! I had to finish this book!

This is a good book to read on a stormy night. There are a lot of scares and action. I like Carmen and her brother Tommy, who bravely seek the spirit of witch who is stealing children. There are some surprises in the plot. I will read the next book on this series.

I liked the book. Good read, flowed nice. Believable characters. I love spooky stories and anything to do with Halloween!!

In all this is a good fun horror tale that should do well with many. Here we are transported to a typical sleepy small town in America. As this opens so we see that a child has gone missing, and when they cannot be found so the townsfolk turn on the old woman in the woods nearby, who is purportedly a witch. As things start to get out of hand so she dies, but not without cursing the town.Jumping forwards three years, we then see what happens as Halloween approaches. This story is constrained somewhat due to its nature, so it is inevitable that there is a certain amount of predictability in what happens, and of course we can all think of similar tales and films from over the years.This works because the characters are well enough drawn and there is quite a bit of action here, plus many will like that this is not really too gruesome making it something that will appeal to a slightly larger range of readers than a lot of other horror tales. In all then this is good and certainly entertains, and it doesn’t take itself too seriously.

I’m really glad I read this in the way up to Halloween. For whatever reason, it suited my current mood perfectly. Nothing too gory and blood-splattered, no scares that were going to keep me up at night ruminating over. Instead it’s more a spooky tale of PG scares where you know that no matter what happens, everyone will end up fine.In small-town America, a young boy disappears. Eventually he shows up safe, but that hasn’t stopped the town’s people throwing their suspicion and venting all their anger on the old lady who lives in the crooked house – the town witch. Unfortunately, before the boy is found, someone has set that old lady’s house aflame and she dies in front of the shocked town’s folk. Dissolving straight into ash as she does.Now it’s three years later and children have started to disappear again – for real this time – and it seems that the witch is back.THE WITCH OF HALLOWEEN HOUSE is a fun ride of the book. My own horror isn’t anything like this. It goes to work on adult themes and isn’t remotely kid friendly. My thirteen year old niece still isn’t allowed to read any of my horror. And that makes me so glad that there are books like this out there that anybody in the family can read and get safe Halloween thrills from.

Predictable, straight plot where teens save the day in a town of useless adults. No big surprises here, no character development.

A real page turner . Great writing style .